The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-17


occasioned much surprise aud com
ment. If any reader overlooked IT,
he should recur - the paper and
earn something to his own and the
city's advantage. While Houston,
Dallas aud Fort Worth have been
higgling over paltry subsidization as
a premium for an ice ref igerator,
few private capitalists quietly, aud
without subsidy from auy source,
placed this plant aud gave to Waco al
industry that Will be worth meny
thousands to her commerce.
THE culture and cviliZ alton of PEG
pie are Judged by their public roads,
and there be msny neighborhoods
with lows marks on the blackb I'd OF
the road commissioners The Mar
lin Bal pertlnontly remarks that
Texas needs dirt roads a wei as
"a roads There are few county
towns aLd cities in Texas but what
1 let INC utttsblty VI SNot P"c''N
roads. The grandest farce on the
/ statutes is the TeXas road law" Now,
suppose veal combine" and "whoop
up" the policy OF workipg the public
roads, cleaning out rivers and build
/ ing irrigation and stock tanks with
I convict labor Three thousand coz
victs could change the whole face of
the country in a decade. In the pr
| litic aud economic language of Colo
II, Sellers, "rhere's millions in it,
The Boston Transcript makes Tia
statement that "in Turkey, when any
man il the author of notorious false
hoods, they blacken the whole front
of his house. We presume, however,
/ that the law is off during the penden-
cy OF a heated political campaign;
/ otherwise the city streets would look
Ikea procession OF hearses." In oil
"a 3 some peoples lintcl7 would be
( - ed with charcoal Judging by tue
abortive conspiracy to sic Clark and
| Mills on the trail for cold Trains"
I The EXAIISkK commlserates Nc
SEES in his "sorrowtu' discontinue,
but really, it can offer him no consol-
inc remedy. IL will see TO it that T. t
twenty-irst legislature shall expo
itself 10 the periIs he and his twenty
witnesses would have pointed out
and with this comforting assurance
he must bide his time W.th patience,
til, The sClons are llatteued out be
meath the wreck of wells aud crush o =
dome.
The gentlemen VINO are prepa' ing
the now directory for Dallas, are
tickling Stcrritt with a fascinating
calculation on ratio and illusion. They
pick out the figures that don't lie, and
stack 'em up on the basis OF three aud
half souls to each name in the d.
rcctory, and call ii 10000. And IN 0
is "at last the population OF Da las.
/ Waco does not envy her prosperous
aud comely sister, but is proud of her
as the Texas metropolis.
REAL ESTATE Men say that the de-
mand for city property is con9ta'
increasing. The inquiries con
from non-residont9 of the city. They
say that outsiders seem to look high
cr, if possible, on Waco dirt than her
own people. TO people who mean
business, Waco offers unparalleled in
ducements tor investments. Let the
good people come in with their
wealth.
lN thirty days the 4, ton Belt will
run trains into Fort Worth, and that
city will then nave eleven iron arms
reaching out for trade and travti
She should now make up her mind
TO devote ten years of her wonderful
energies and enterprise to the build
ing of manufactures and the spend
ing of Sl0,000,000 in the work.
FROM the way the country paper.
are filling up with merchants advert
iscments, it is fair to assume that the
farmers are greatly encouraged by
tho raius and the condition of th,
wheat, and that they are bringing GU
their reserve for Christmas frolic
There is evidently better feeling il
: business circles.
THE EXAMINERS write-up of tn
= public schools of Waco has attracted
attention all over the state. Tn
people outside OF the city limits, wer
! not aware of her splendid educationa
, equipment. The university and othe
, inst tutions will receive the best ser
7 g l. .